Faith is the material God needs from you to manifest the things you have asked for, but have not yet seen in your life.

Your faith literally builds a bridge from the heavenly realm into the natural realm.

The problem is that all-too-often our faith is not big enough or strong enough for the things we are asking God to be transported (by the angels) into your life.

Many times your faith may waiver. You may feel strong in your faith about something coming to pass one day and the next day doubt may creep in and cause your faith to diminish.

This occurs to continue to teach you how to strengthen your faith so it becomes consistent, unwaivering and big enough to complete the bridge of substance that the heavenly realm needs to “deliver” your blessings.

When your bridge of faith is large enough and strong enough to carry your blessings, the favor in your life increases to prepare you for what the Lord is about to bring to you.

Overflowing miracles and divine appointments line up in your favor.

Before you can increase your faith in big ways, your faith must become consistent.

When you develop consistent faith, circumstances literally submit themselves to the power of your faith and line up in your favor.

The more consistent your faith becomes, the more favor chases you down and every area of your life lines up to pour forth continual blessings.

You know that all things work together for good of them that love God and are called according to His purpose.

But, all-too-often this includes not only things of positivity or light, but it includes things of negativity or darkness that appear to come against us.

Although God will eventually turn it around in your favor, there is a way to have only positive or light working on your behalf.

There are several things you can start doing today (and practice daily) that will move you into having consistent, and then expanding and increasing, faith:

1. Identify and elevate your belief. Belief is the precursor to faith.

2. Open your mind and spirit to receive. We are accustomed to giving, but not receiving.

3. Change what you are “ordering” to manifest in your life from the heavenly realm.

If you are ready to delve deeper into activating and increasing your faith so your circumstances easily line up and produce unprecedented favor in every area of your life, I invite you to join me for an upcoming 3-part tele-course.

You will also learn:

How to feel the tangible presence of the Lord throughout your day.

How to activate the power of your angels to make things happen on your behalf.

How to remove the shackles of your past so you can be fully present and create a powerful future.

About six months ago I was having very, very sharp pains in my left breast.

It felt as if a knife was stabbing me repeatedly. I could also feel a lump in my breast that was painful to the touch. It was evident that something was very wrong.

When I asked the Holy Spirit what it was, He simply replied, “Cancer.” He reminded me that cancer just means the presence of abnormal cells and it, too, is subject to His name.

I searched my heart and found some remaining anger and let it go. Then, I begin to cast it out in Jesus’ name and commanded the angels of cancer healing to come forth and perform supernatural surgery on my left breast.

I literally felt their presence and then saw in the Spirit what looked like a glob of a black tar-like substance being pulled out of the core of my breast in the Spirit. I felt as if a huge glob of bubble gum was being pulled from inside of my breast. I knew I was healed. I knew the cancer was gone. I didn’t mention a word to anyone but my husband. Of course, I have not had any pain since.

Then, about three weeks ago I went to the Dr. (thank you Obamacare!) and she felt a sizeable lump in my right breast. I could feel it, too. It was unmistakable.

After I left the doctor’s office, I again asked the Holy Spirit what it was. He said, “It is the same thing that was in your left breast (cancer). You only cast it out of the left breast and it was also in the right one.” I thanked the Lord for letting me know what I needed to cast out.

I searched my heart again and found some lingering anger at myself that needed to be released. Then, I got busy casting the cancer out of my right breast in Jesus’ name. In the meantime, the Dr. sent a referral for a mammogram and ultrasound of my right breast.

While I didn’t have the same poignant experience of the cancer being “pulled out,” I did do a lot of expelling of spirit of infirmity and spirit of jealousy (resentment). I decreed and declared that the lump would be gone by the time I had my mammogram.

My appointment was this morning. I wasn’t worried as I knew that through the power of Jesus I could cast it out, but I truly desired the confirmation of absolutely no lump.

As I sat in the lobby waiting for them to call my name, I was thanking Jesus for the power of healing in His name and the profound gift of knowing how to appropriate His name for healing.

After waiting in another waiting room full of women in mauve wrap around hospital tops, I was called in by the mammogram technician. She, too, asked me if I had a lump and in which breast.

“Yes. My right one,” I replied. Then she felt for the lump and didn’t feel anything (it was VERY obvious when my Dr. originally found it). I then had to tell her where it was. She looked perplexed and gave me a sticker to mark the spot where the lump was located.

She then had me sit back in the waiting room so I can be called into to the ultrasound room. I was asked the same thing by that technician. “Did you locate a lump? In what breast?” Again, I replied, “Yes. In my right breast.” She then tried to feel for the lump and said she was having problems feeling anything. I then tried to locate it and again, I could not. I just pointed out the area of the lump my Dr. found and she did an ultrasound.

At the end of the ultrasound she said, “I don’t see anything. But, wait here and I am going to have the Doctor review your ultrasound.” Shortly after that she returned and announced that there was nothing on my mammogram or in the ultrasound and they were both clear.

There was no lump.

I could barely hold still from wanting to jump all around that room in praise and dance.

I just couldn’t hold it in and did holler, “Hallelujah!” as I threw both hands triumphantly in the air.

Three weeks ago there was a very clear lump. Today, after applying the name of Jesus and demanding that it leave my body, there was nothing.

I want to remind you that with belief and authority, there is NOTHING Jesus won’t do for you.

Do not settle. Do not hesitate. Do not doubt. Do not fear.

Believe Him for what you truly desire. Command it into existence.

Focus only on what you desire because whatever you focus on will expand.

And do not allow sickness one single moment in your body. You are a temple of the Most High God in which the Holy Spirit dwells and darkness in the form of sickness has NO right in you.

When you get this – I mean TRULY get this – the sickness must go. It cannot stay.

Something inside of you has shifted. You have been charging one price for years, but somehow it is no longer honoring the hard work, skill and talent that you give to your clients.

The friends with with whom you have always had so much in common are still talking about the same things, but your mind is 100 miles away.

While they are talking about their dates, shopping and their jobs, you are focused on bettering the areas of your life with which you are not pleased. You no longer want to just talk about it.

You are doing what it takes to walk in the things you desire.

Something has deepened within you. But you cannot put it into words in a way that others may understand.

You have just upleveled, but you may not have had a word for it until now.

Upleveling is the spiritual process of moving to new levels, dimensions and heights of success due to an increase in your capacity for greatness.

When you are moved to a new level, you access more and more of your inner God-given greatness and are able to express and release your greatness into the world with ever-increasing ease.

This all sounds great, right? Yes!

But there is a side to upleveling that people rarely discuss. It is only discussed once you reach a new level and are sitting in the presence of others who have upleveled to that altitude. It is whispered. It is hushed. It is discussed only after glancing over one’s shoulder to see if anyone else is listening.

Uplevel causes upset in your life.

Things change when you uplevel.

Things change when you uplevel. The status quo will no longer do in your life. This can shake up friendships, relationships, the way you perceive things, the value you place on your time and the way you walk through life.
This upleveling can result in only two reactions from people – either they rise with you or they exit your life. This exiting may be temporary or it can be permanently. Either way, they must exit and it is nothing personal, but when you are upleveling, it can feel very personal.

Okay, that a nice way of putting it.

These shifts can actually leave you with a lack of understanding and sometimes feeling like you may be crazy because you shifted and everyone else did not make the shift with you.

It is as if you received a secret code to make everything around you brighter and more powerful, but no one else received the code. They did not get the same memo you received.

I want to help you not feel “crazy” as you are in the midst of an uplevel. There are 6 key areas in which you will see significant shifts in your life when you uplevel. Understanding how they look and feel will help you gain clarity, peace and be able to seamlessly move from one level to the next without sabotaging yourself or feeling isolated.

The six areas impacted the most by upleveling are:
1. Relationships
2. Self-care
3. Capacity for greatness
4. Efficiency and time management
5. Level of discipline
6. Self-value

Your Relationships. When you uplevel, you are no longer the same person you used to be and it shows up in your relationships. Things that you are your friends used to talk about all of the time no longer appeal to you. You may also begin to crave more fulfillment in your marriage or significant relationship. It may also show up in your family if your family shares negative or joking comments about your desire for more. The key is to share how you are feeling so your friends and loved ones can better understand what you are going through.

Your Self-Care. When you are in the process of upleveling, you will begin to notice things about your body and energy level that you simply have not had the “bandwidth” to give your full attention. You may decide to pull back on all you have been doing for others so you have more time, energy and attention for yourself. Definitely listen to your body and give yourself the attention you are desiring. More quiet reading. More balance. More bubble baths. More honoring how you are really feeling and not trying to make everyone happy at the expense of your energy and well-being.

Your Capacity For Greatness. Another thing that inevitably happens when you uplevel is things that you have been trying and trying to get done become easier to complete. Perhaps you have been working on a book for years, but then all of a sudden, you make the decision to complete the book and before you know it, it is completed. This is not something you can make happen. It automatically happens when you rise to your new level.

Your Efficiency and Time Management. A key area that shifts when you move to new heights of success is in relation to your time. Your time becomes much more valuable and you notice different areas of your life in which you have not been operating efficiently. You begin to see that you would rather create a new product that you have been thinking about than watch that TV show you DVR’d and usually run to watch at the end of the day. You may also find yourself saying, “No” to clients who have not been honoring the rates you would like to begin charging for your products and services. Honor this desire and get clear about the value of your time. And definitely take the time to find the right time management system for you at this new level of operation.

Your Level of Discipline. Perhaps one of the most fabulous thing that occurs when you uplevel is that your self-discipline increases. You may have known for years that you wanted to consistently exercise, but before you upleveled, you never seemed to have time. But now, it is no longer negotiable. Being disciplined has become a way of life for you and you begin to shift your levels of self-control in your life. Doing the writing, making healthier choices, keeping your work, making sure you follow-through, making better financial choices, among other things, will seem to easily shift into a new level of focus and discipline.

Your Self-value. With each new level to which you move, you become more and more clear about your beauty, value, grace, loveliness, and inner joy. Your self-adoration and self-love grows exponentially and you begin to literally feel your greatness and move from striving and people-pleasing to simply intentionally express your inner greatness in every area of your life.

I hope that helps you better understand the dynamics of upleveling so you don’t think you are crazy and know that this is part of your process of achievement and success.

If you would like more insight on how to navigate smoothly through an uplevel, you can learn more in my blog, The Art of Upleveling. Here’s to happy upleveling!

What have you observed and discovered as you have moved to new levels and heights of success?

[Ericka D James, The Results Accelerator, is a master trainer and business expansion expert who works with business owners, training them to step into their full power and value to build high-impact businesses. She also oversees ministries that transform the world through the Kingdom Minister’s Association, a training and empowerment organization for ministers called beyond the walls of the church. Learn more about her life’s work at www.ErickaDJames.com and www. IACBW.com.]

What a great year 2015 was! It was a year of revealing and positioning for me. Great progress was made, but it also seemed like there was something else going on. There were many things in my life and in others that were promised but did not seem to come to pass.

I just had to ask the Lord what happened. He replied to me, “So many of my children were in fear that they did not obey the call and instruction that I gave them [in 2015].”

He then continued, “These things are not denied, but they have been delayed.” Deep!

2015 was the warm-up for what is about to manifest in your life in 2016! It is going to be awesome!!!

I share three ways to make 2016 your best year ever in the video. Fear blocks your belief and therefore your blessings. It is time to launch into 2016 with NO FEAR whatsoever. Enjoy!